Some of our favorite vintage photographs of Garden Home places and events
1890 Post Office and store, Garden Home, Oregon. Mr Nichols, Postmaster.
Looking west down Garden Home Road from the Red Store, 1911.
Shattuck hay wagon, 2 little girls, 3 men
Shattuck Dairy wagon
Shattuck Dairy feedlot, barn
Shattuck Dairy barn off Oleson Rd in today’s Arranmore development
Shattuck Dairy – two men in wagon
Shattuck Dairy – two cows w bells
Shattuck Dairy – narrow freight wagon, 4 horses
Shattuck Dairy – haying, 2 men above hay mow
Shattuck Dairy – Hay wagon men
Shattuck Dairy – hay derrick in field
Shattuck Dairy – showing off on windmill used to pump water – edited by David Delgado
Shattuck Dairy – girl, 3 men shop door open
Shattuck Dairy – cows, 4 men, 2 boys, tall tree
Shattuck Dairy – barn with two men in hay mow, wagon, horses
Shattuck Dairy – barn to left
Shattuck dairy – 30 cows, tall stump
Shattuck Dairy – 10 men, 25 cows, stump farm in back
Shattuck Dairy – barnyard,milk wagons, log road
Pete Gertsch and his accordion
Oleson Road, looking north, 1948
Hunziker Dairy, from Tigard by Mary Payne
Hunziker Balmer Dairy
Christian Balmer, far left, Christ Gertsch, far rt, Rosalie Balmer taller girl marries Pete Gertsch,center white shirt, parents of Shirley Gertsch Bartels
1911 Garden Home Railway Depot. This structure formerly stood on a trestle near where Multnomah Blvd and Garden Home now intersect, just east of the location of the Old Market Pub. Tracks to the left went south to Nesmith, Metzger, and Greenburg and beyond. Tracks on the right went northwest to Firlock, Fanno Creek, Whitford, and Beaverton and beyond. Source: City of Beaverton
1911 Garden Home Railway Depot of the Oregon Electric Railway (note Red Store in background).
1909 Garden Home Train Depot (view from the east)
Garden Home train station
Garden Home train station – rear
Garden Home train station – crowd
Maplewood trestle for the Oregon Electric Railway. Note Maplewood School in background.
Oregon Electric – track construction 7
1903-11-02 page 1 Morning Oregonian detail
Upchurch Store (photo by Dorothy Stevens). Courtesy Mildred Stevens. See post.
White store, circa 1940s
1956, Fire burns grocery store
White store after fire
A 1953 International tanker from the Beaverton Rural Fire Protection District (foreground) helps extinguish a major fire that burned the same grocery store on the corner of Oleson and Garden Home roads in Garden Home. Aiding in the effort was the Portland Fire Bureau, their two engines visible to the right.
Give-away blotter for Garden Home Dairy (aka the Marugg dairy).
1936 aerial photo of the west end of SW Garden Home Road as it turns north into SW 92nd Ave.
1956 aerial photo of the west end of SW Garden Home Road as it turns north into SW 92nd Ave.
1954 aerial photo of Garden Home
Hunt Club from NE (Garden Home School in upper left of photo)
Aerial photo by Otto Arndt shows cannery just to the left of the fork in the road, at the location of today’s Old Market Pub. Circa mid 1950s.
1983 Washington Square – from the SW Highway 217 and SW Scholls Ferry Rd in foreground, Crescent Grove Cemetery in the wooded lot adjacent to mall parking lot. Red Tail Golf Course (formerly Progress Downs) is visible in the top half of photo. Sears is the mall’s lower right corner in photo.
1956 aerial photo, view from Multnomah Blvd looking west. Courtesy Otto Arndt
1956 aerial photo, view from the west
1954 Multnomah Village – from the E Overpass is SW Capitol Highway going over SW Multnomah Blvd. The future location of Gabriel Park is in upper right hand corner of photo.
Sanborn Map 1949
1946 Pittmon street map city of Portland detail
1946 Pittmon street map city of Portland
1928 Washington County Atlas page 4
1927 Metsker’s Atlas of Multnomah County, page 20.
1922-09-10 page 6 Sunday Oregonian detail
1909 map of Garden Home
Firefighter Clarence Buffam (on rig) and Beaverton fire chief Archie Olson use a Beaverton Rural Fire Protection District engine to fight a brush fire on King street in Garden Home area in what is now on the Oleson Road side of the Portland Golf Club. Retired firefighter Ernie Metcalfe described Olson, who was named chief of the Beaverton Fire Department in February 1937, as “old school” when it came to firefighting. That meant telling his firefighters to “put the wet stuff on the red stuff.” The fire was contained by firefighters from the Beaverton Rural Fire Protection District.
Local boys do their part in extinguishing the same fire on King Street. The fire was contained by firefighters from the Beaverton Rural Fire Protection District.
1950s Jean Johnson and dog Billy Boy at Garden Home Garage. Truck is local Volunteer Beaverton Fire Department.
Frank Farm carpeted horse stables
Snow scene at Frank Farm railroad siding
Frank Farm covered horse arena grandstand and barn.
Old Community Church circa 1950’s
Old Community Methodist Church
Old Community Church circa 1950’s
Arndt home on Garden Home Road, 1960s
1949 Canfield House outhouse. Courtesy George and Mae Babbitt. See post.
1957 Lamb’s Thriftway grand opening. Produce aisle. Courtesy Colin Lamb. See post.
Lamb’s Thriftway shopping center 1980s
1994 Lamb’s Thriftway Plaza, Big Tomato Pizza. Courtesy Colin Lamb. See post.
1950 Whitney’s Cannery, Mark Whitney in foreground. See Leona Whitney and the Whitney Cannery. Courtesy Colin Lamb.
John A. Slavin barn on Slavin Road. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
1884 residence of John and Emma Ruth Ross Slavin, Hillsdale. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
1914 Hetlesater Home on Mayo Ave. Courtesy Ione (Coffey) Owens Parrish. See post..
Historic 1910 pillars at the entry to the Hunt Club. Courtesy Pat and Andy Dignan. See post.
Gertsch home in what is now Arranmore. Courtesy Shirley Gertsch Bartels. See post.
“Old” Garden Home Community Church
Moving the Fraley house.
The Sanctuary and Fraley house on Unitarian site.
New Garden Home Community Methodist Church
circa 1970’s Garden Home United Methodist Church. Courtesy Elaine Shreve. See post.
The Oregonian, June 14, 1944, page 1
Garden Home plane crash pilot Robert H. Strong
Oregonian Monday Oct 20, 1941 – derailment photo
Poutala, Firlock Paints
Wormwood Manor 1962 broken telephone pole and damage from Big Blow on Firlock Ln
Marugg dairy farm was active in the 1940s and 50s. Courtesy Steve Bauer. See post.
1980 Lingerwood Realtor, Jack Steiger (now known as the Skyhar neighborhood) Courtesy Steve Bauer. See post.
PGC history: Alva on back tractor. Man on front is unknown.
PGC history: Alva and John, moving a tree at the golf course.
PGC history: Alva and John at home.
Garden Home School photos
1911 Garden Home School, all grades. This is the founding year of Garden Home School, held upstairs in the Jager store. Courtesy Ione (Coffey) Owens Parrish. See post..
1912 Newly constructed Garden Home School
1912 Garden Home School. Margaret Scherner in plaid. Courtesy Don Smith. See post.
1935 Garden Home Grade School, all grades. Clark Stephens 2nd grade – last boy on right, 4th row. Courtesy Clark Stephens. See post.
1935 Garden Home Grade School, 1st and 2nd grade. Teacher, Miss Arnett. Front Row, L to R: June Ferris 2nd,__________ John May 2nd, Betty Schaefer 1st, ___________, Alice Burns 1st, Madeline KoesterBack Row, L to R: __________, Bill May 1st, Jim Godwin 2nd, Bill Lyons 2nd, ____________, _______________, Clark Stephens 1st. Courtesy Clark Stephens. See post.
1936 Garden Home School, all grades. Courtesy Clark Stephens. See post.
1937 Garden Home School, all grades. Courtesy Clark Stephens. See post.
1938 Garden Home Grade School, 3rd and 4th grades. Teacher, Miss Waltman. Front row, L to R: Bill May 4th, _______, _______, Harry Feldman 3rd, ___________, Clark Stephens 4th, _________ Jim Bernard 3rd.Back row, L to R: Barbara Lyons 3rd, _________, Shirley Redding 3rd, Alice Burns 4th, Ann Coey 3rd, Rosella Niebert 3rd, Lou Anne Hickman 3rd, Madeline Koester 4th, Betty Schaefer 4th, Evelyn Knudsen 4th Courtesy Clark Stephens. See post.
1938 Garden Home School 1st grade. Zora, Sharka Becvar on each end of 2nd row. Courtesy Zora and Sharka Becvar. See post.
1938 Garden Home School grade 1, Zora, Sharka each end 2nd row crop
1939 Graden Home School grade 8
1939 Garden Home School grades 1 and 2
Vlasta Becvar at 1939 graduation with Garden Home School prinicipal Edward T. Taggart, May 18, 1939 crop
1939 Garden Home School 8th Grade Graduating Class
1939 Garden Home School grade 1
1939 Garden Home School Operetta: Isle of Chance; From left: Frances McMannis, June Farris, Eunice Scofield, Essie Jones, Burtene Waller, Betty McMannis. Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See post.
1939 Garden Home School, OperettaIsle of Chance, sailors Ted Newton, Bill Hyde, David Replogle, Donald Mason, Buddy Upchurch, James Lyons
Late 1930s Garden Home School student body
1939 Garden Home School, Operetta Isle of Chance, Lady Vlasta Becvar, Lord Roger Soule, Captain Ted Jensen, King Bill Worsham, Simpleta Phyllis VanDerMark, aide John Gamble Donald
1939 Dutch Dances, Zora & Sharka Becvar. Courtesy Zora and Sharka Becvar. See post.
1940, George & Martha Washington, Zora & Sharka Becvar. Courtesy Zora and Sharka Becvar. See post.
1941 Garden Home School
1942 Garden Home School grades 5 and 6, teacher Vera Jane Waltman
1942 Garden Home School grades 3 and 4
1943 Garden Home School grades 5 and 6.
1943 Garden Home School, 5th and 6th grades. Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See post.
Early 1940’s Garden Home School Students. Teacher, Miss Waltman.
1940s Front doors of School Dist. No. 92 Garden Home
1945 Garden Home School grade 3 and 4
1945 Garden Home School grade 8
1954 Garden Home School from W – Arndt Neg 01. Central Garden Home, Oleson at an angle running left and right. School in foreground with the old original school building still attached in what is now the south parking lot. Garden Home Feed and Seed building has no roof structure. Community Church east of feed store at now 71st. Long 2-story store at the intersection, variously named Upchurch, Throckmortons or generally the White store, burned in 1956. Note the nut orchard NE of intersection where Thriftway is built in 1957.
1951 Garden Home School, winter
1951 Garden Home School
Garden Home School graduating class of 1951, May 23, 1951
1954 aerial photo of Garden Home
1956 Garden Home School grade 5.
1957 Garden Home School, 7th grade, Dick Vonada, 2nd from right, first row. Courtesy Dick Vonada. See post.
Garden Home School 8th grade graduation. Gerry Johnson on the flute, Angie and Florence MacKay on clarinet, Warren Cook on drums. Courtesy Angie MacKay Fredrickson. See post.
1958 Garden Home School office addition plans. See post.
Garden Home School 7th and 8th grades together, Principal Thurman, teacher Mr. Gustafson
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Final student body assembly
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – train mural in hallway
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Field Day with Virgil Pearce and kids
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Mary Landers, School Secretary
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – te in long pants, girls
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Field Day with Rick Evers and kids
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – playground structure
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Field Day event with kids carrying balls between their knees
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – back of building
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – school busses
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – Bill Gellatly with students
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – balloon release
1982 Final day of Garden Home School – main entrance
Garden Home Recreation Center main entrance, 2011
gym entrance, Garden Home Recreation Center, 2011
2012 Garden Home Recreation Center (formerly school). Courtesy Elaine Shreve. See post.
Rainbow over the Garden Home Recreation center
Old Whitford School
Whitford Middle School
BHS 1951 building (removed 3rd floor after earthquake)
BHS 1915 building
BHS 1915 building, under construction
BHS 1915 building with 1929 addition
BHS 1915 building with 1929 addition (rear view circa 1940s)
BHS 1915 building circa 1949
BHS 1910 building, before 1923 addition
BHS 1910 building, after 1923 addition (now a grade school)
BHS 1874 building, circa 1900s (rear)
BHS 1874 building, circa 1900s (front)
1939 Lincoln High School. Arthur Jones, Eunice Scofield, Jean Frazer, Bill, Irene Rickman, Vlasta Becvar, Ted Jensen, Phyllis Van Der Mark, Kathryn Hunt, Lloyd Knudsen, Mary Jane McMannis, Jean Engstrom, David Replogle. Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See post.
Vintage photos of the people of Garden Home
1939 Dutch Dances, Zora & Sharka Becvar. Courtesy Zora and Sharka Becvar. See post.
1940, George & Martha Washington, Zora & Sharka Becvar. Courtesy Zora and Sharka Becvar. See post.
1938 Czech National Dances, Ted Jensen, Vlasta Becvar, Lloyd Knudsen
Vlasta Becvar, December 1934, Occidental Ave. 76th
1937 Zora and Sharka Becvar birthday party
Garden Home Extension Study Group
Millie & mother Frances Becvar, 1935
Becvar girls and others
Dorothy Johnson winning Miss Oregon 1955, Astorian Budget photo. Courtesy Dorothy Johnson. See post.
Dorothy Johnson, Miss Mobil Tire 1954
Dorothy Johnson and Pat Boone, 1958
Dorothy Johnson with German Shepard
Dorothy waving at street sign (now SW 88th Ave)
Dorothy Johnson and father Gust Johnson
Dorothy Johnson with Bobby and Dean Day
Jack Godwin on Babe the burro in front of Godwin home on Westgard Ave (now SW 87th)
Betty the St. Bernard with (L-R) Cousins Bill Norris, Doc Hickman, Lou Anne Hickman and Eilene Norris. Courtesy Doc Hickman. See post.
Theresa Boyd Upchurch and daughter Dorothy Upchurch, circa 1922
Louis Upchurch with son Bud, brother in law Ed Jones and sister Leona Uupchurch Jones, daughter Dorothy Upchurch and her cousin Patty Jones, circa 1928
Dorothy Upchurch circa 1945
William and Mary Patton
Mildred Ransom in front of 4608 SW Maplewood Rd house
Mrs. Ruth Frank driving a carriage pulled by Aloma
Aaron Frank and horse, circa 1920s
Aaron Frank driving Aloma (watercolor)
Aaron Frank driving Stella Vane and Buckley Vedie, champion heavy harness horses
Ruth Frank with dogs
Ruth Frank with prize show horse. Courtesy Gerry Frank. See post.
Aaron Frank driving his prized horse, Aloma. Circa 1920s
Aaron Frank dressed as Charlie Chaplin, circa 1920s
Aaron Frank driving the sulkey cart
Ruth Frank with sons, Gerry and Dick. Courtesy Gerry Frank. See post.
Richard (L) and Gerry (R) Frank as children
Tom, Donna, Jim, Judy Arndt
Tom, Donna, Jim, Judy Arndt all dressed up
Mary and Otto Arndt, circa 1970s
Garden Home plane crash pilot Robert H. Strong
Lillian & Olive Oleson’s nursing class, 1915
Garden Home baseball team in the Sunset Basebase League. Uncle Duke Scherner (right front), Uncle Carl Rehberg (left rear) and Albert Erickson (center). Courtesy Don Smith. See post.
Late 1920s Garden Home baseball team. #1 Duke Scherner in back. Courtesy Don Smith. See post.
1935 or 1936 Garden Home baseball team of the Sunset League.Front row (L to R): Jim Butler, Walt Niebert, Jim Smith, _________, Cece Daimler, Don Steele, Al Drake. Bat boy in front: Bob Tetrick.Back row: Glenn Steele, Bob Steele, Sid Ralston, Cliff Duval, _______Werschkul, Noble Stephens (Clark Stephens dad, manager), _________, Milt Drake, Stan Hall. Courtesy Clark Stephens. See post.
Jack Godwin baseball uniform
1932 Mary Helen Himes, Lincoln High School graduation. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
US Army Sgt. 1st Class Steele, center, shaking hands with a General. Courtesy Jack Steele. See post.
Mark Whitney at the Co-op Cannery, 1950. See Leona Whitney and the Whitney Cannery. Courtesy Colin Lamb.
1905, Von Bergens: Magdelana, Andreas holding Frieda, Ida and Elsie standing and Andreas parents. Courtesy Richard Roth and Madeline Benner. See post.
Wash day, Elsie, Ida and Frieda Von Bergen hanging out the wash. Courtesy Richard Roth and Madeline Benner. See post.
Detlef and Maria Scherner family, circa late 1890s, prior to Margaret Scherner’s birth. Courtesy Don Smith. See post.
1916 Garden Home School graduates. Teacher Miss Magnuson. (with Margaret’s brother, Rhinehart “Duke” Scherner) Back row: Olaf Johnson, Birtha Benz, Lena Benz, Frank Erickson, Elizabeth McBroon, John Dehaan, Wesley Beharrel. Front row: William Kehrli, Pauline West, Wilbur Workman, Adam Dehaan, Rhinehart Scherner, Ruth Caldwell, Clause Erickson. Courtesy Don Smith. See post.
Morris, Fanny and Samuel Pallay. Courtesy Hal Pallay. See post.
Hal Pallay is the youngest child in the front of the photo. Behind him are children in the family he played with as he grew older. Courtesy Hal Pallay. See post.
Fannie and Morris Pallay inside the house on Garden Home Road. On the wall behind them the picture of a child wearing the Russian Military uniform tailored by Morris. Courtesy Hal Pallay. See post.
Florence Mostert was the oldest girl in a family of 12 and always told her children she was born somewhere between Garden Home and Metzger. Courtesy Hal Pallay. See post.
Fannie and Morris Pallay celebrating their Golden Wedding anniversary. Those seated in the middle of the picture are, from left to right: Clarence?, __________, Leo, Morris, Fannie, Florence and Hal Pallay. Courtesy Hal Pallay. See post.
Mary Helen Himes and brother George Richard in Garden Home, circa 1918. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
Claridge Himes, parent to Mary Helen Himes. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
Richard C. Prince, Mary Helen’s maternal grandfather. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
Vera Prince Himes. Courtesy Mary Helen Himes Koeber. See post.
Clara with Jennie & Marion Hetlesater. Courtesy Ione (Coffey) Owens Parrish. See post..
Roderick MacKay, Garden Home school custodian and bus driver. Courtesy Angie MacKay Fredrickson. See post.
Millie Becvar, Mr. and Mrs.Fishburn, Becvar house on 76th Ave Courtesy Vlasta Becvar Barber. See post.
1908 Children of John Alden Oleson. Alden Louis 1907, Veola 1913 (mother of Robin Robinson), Alden Ole 1916 (father of Donna), Robert Wesley 1918, Elsie Jean 1920, all born at “Oleson Station.” Courtesy Donna Oleson Nylander. See post.
John Alden Oleson, son of Ole, born Oct 1, 1879, married Dec 25, 1906, died Aug 8, 1966. Courtesy Robin Robinson. See post.
Elsie Bertha Schalk, born Dec 24, 1887, married Dec 25, 1906, died Oct 2, 1966 Courtesy Robin Robinson. See post.
Oscar Olson, a member of the Portland Police Bureau, who had Henry Steiner build the house in 1938
1957 Garden Home School PTA members Mrs. Byron Meisner and Mrs. Ward Nelson at a PTA event in Pendleton, Oregon. See post.
Jack Steele’s six siblings. Donald, Joyce, June, mother Charity. Front: Bruce, Wanda, Crystal Steele. Courtesy Jack Steele. See post.
This is the Von Bergen family from the early 1900s. Magadelana and Andreas holding Frieda, Ida and Elsie in the back and Andreas’ parents on the right. Their dairy was off Oleson Road at about Miles Court. Richard Roth and Madaline Benner, children of Ida, recall visits to the Von Bergen Dairy farm.
Feldman family and Japanese family on Feldman Fanno Creek Dairy
Musetta and Charles Adams. Courtesy John Adams.
Clockwise from Musetta, lower left corner, up to Ted (m Geneva,lived in Garden Home, had 3 children Richard, Alice and Janice, Dee, Oliver,(fa. of Culmer “John” with whom we visited), John’s siblings Arley and Jeannie Adams Goldie, married Oiver Metome also called “Dugan” Revilo, Charles Wesley Adams holding son Leonard (worked for Jones Lumber Co. lived in Garden Home). Courtesy John Adams.
John Adams as a child with flowers pinned to his shirt. Courtesy John Adams.
Judge Erasmus Shattuck
PGC history – Alva Davis’ homemade car, pictured on his father’s farm.
PGC history – The house where John R DeHaan grew up.
Whitney’s Cannery – customers preparing ingredients, CH Sugar boxes on table – 1958
Michael Norris, Dale Bender, Stevie Payton, Shane Hayden, 1940s
Christ (1869-1949) and Katie Tannler (1871-1948) Gertsch. Stepfather and mother of Pete Gertsch and paternal grandparents of Shirley Gertsch Bartels
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